07-10-2004, 09:23 PM
Athletes guinea pigs for foreign coaches?
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Are foreign athletics experts (read coaches) using top Indian athletes as guinea pigs? Results of a clutch of bio-chemical tests carried out during the preparatory camps just before the 2000 Sydney Olympics have indicated that top Indian athletes were apparently taking a cocktail of anabolic steroids, which, in turn, affected the composition of cholesterol and High Density of Lipoprotein (HDL) in the blood.
Data gathered over the 2000, leading up to the Olympic Games, show that top trained athletes in the camps had a cholesterol level as high as 300-plus and HDL below 7 gm%.
According to sources, foreign coaches, in a frantic effort to "stay over", even resort to experimenting with prohibited drugs on the athletes for better performance.
Which has all led to a likely denouement: the whole bunch of athletes preparing for the Athens Olympics have stopped appearing for bio-chemical tests.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Are foreign athletics experts (read coaches) using top Indian athletes as guinea pigs? Results of a clutch of bio-chemical tests carried out during the preparatory camps just before the 2000 Sydney Olympics have indicated that top Indian athletes were apparently taking a cocktail of anabolic steroids, which, in turn, affected the composition of cholesterol and High Density of Lipoprotein (HDL) in the blood.
Data gathered over the 2000, leading up to the Olympic Games, show that top trained athletes in the camps had a cholesterol level as high as 300-plus and HDL below 7 gm%.
According to sources, foreign coaches, in a frantic effort to "stay over", even resort to experimenting with prohibited drugs on the athletes for better performance.
Which has all led to a likely denouement: the whole bunch of athletes preparing for the Athens Olympics have stopped appearing for bio-chemical tests.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->